The beer cannon

[pendell]

I got this in an email from my boss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyLuosZ1rY&feature=player_embedded). He wants it ready by June. I think he's joking. :smallwink:

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[MoonCat]

He wants you to build one?

[Cyrion]

You'll find out for sure when you give him a development budget...

Complete with test subjects of course! :smallbiggrin:

[pendell]

He wants you to build one?

Jokingly, yes. We DO build robotic minibars and so on. I don't think we'd build something like that, though.

Why? 'Cause all you need is some six-year-old kid playing around with the iPhone and getting smacked right in the forehead with a soda can. Then Mum and Dad come into the hotel room to find their Darling Child sprawled on the ground with the imprint of a Coca-Cola can on his forehead.

Can you say "bazillion-dollar lawsuit", neighbor?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Keld Denar]

We DO build robotic minibars and so on.

You must get me a job! Mechanical engineer with ~4 years of experience including some minor controls work! Willing to relocate! I must fulfill my life's dream of creating an alcohol dispensing automaton! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

[Orzel]

With my lack of depth perception, I can be in the same room with such a machine. I'd be sooo temped and BAM!

In the face.

Or worse.

[CynicalAvocado]

With my lack of depth perception, I can be in the same room with such a machine. I'd be sooo temped and BAM!

In the face.

Or worse.

:smallamused:

with my... tendencies*... i'd end up on the 6 o'clock news


EDIT: *tendencies refers to the time i embedded a pen in my health class's drywall after tinkering with it

[golentan]

My advice: start in on it anywho. If he's not joking, you've got a good start, and if he is you've a legitimate excuse for a couple of fun days.

[Ravens_cry]

Why? 'Cause all you need is some six twenty-year-old kid drunken frat bow playing around with the iPhone and getting smacked right in the forehead with a soda beer can. Then Mum and Dad come into the hotel room to find their Darling Child sprawled on the ground with the imprint of a Coca-Cola beer can on his forehead.

Can you say "bazillion-dollar lawsuit", neighbor?
I believe I have rectified your statement to more accurately reflect another potential issue.
To be precise, I don't think intoxication and flying heavy metal objects will mix all that well.

[Shyftir]

I believe I have rectified your statement to more accurately reflect another potential issue.
To be precise, I don't think intoxication and flying heavy metal objects will mix all that well.

That really depends on how you value the terms "mix well."

If utterly ridiculous chaos is your goal...

[Moff Chumley]

That really depends on how you value the terms "mix well."

If utterly ridiculous chaos is your goal...

When is it not? :smallconfused:

[Ravens_cry]

That really depends on how you value the terms "mix well."

If utterly ridiculous chaos is your goal...
If an appeal to sanity doesn't convince you, think how fizzy that beer will be, gah!:smallyuk: I mean, here it's just Bud Light, but what if it was something good?

[Adlan]

Still, the minifridge controlled by an App and dispensing beverages on request seems like it'd be a good product. Start developing!

[Barbin]

If an appeal to sanity doesn't convince you, think how fizzy that beer will be, gah!:smallyuk: I mean, here it's just Bud Light, but what if it was something good?

My... My Brio would be wasted! That machine is horrible.:smalleek:

[Cyrion]

So, to offer a sop to the conscience and "beer is not healthy" party members everywhere, set it up so that there's a semi-random counter that chucks a stick of celery or an apple after every 3-5 beers.

[pendell]

No sop needed. More stuff goes into a minibar than just alcohol. Sodas of various kinds, bottled water, peanuts, chips ... fundamentally, if it can fit inside the container and people will buy it, it WILL be sold.

*Ponders all the different objects that could be fired out of an air cannon, and begins sketching trajectories*

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[shadow_archmagi]

I clicked on this thread really hoping that it was a misspelling of "Bear canon" and that the discussion would proceed along those lines.

[Killer Angel]

To be precise, I don't think intoxication and flying heavy metal objects will mix all that well.

Except in the single case of a drunk space goblin on a flying refrigerator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsU3ySB4qRU&feature=related)... :smalltongue:

[Dr.Epic]

Jokingly, yes. We DO build robotic minibars and so on. I don't think we'd build something like that, though.

Build me one!

[pendell]

Build me one!

Show me the money. :)

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Dr.Epic]

Show me the money. :)

Respectfully,

Brian P.

Can I pay you in theoretical dollars?

[Cyrion]

Only theoretical research survives on theoretical funding.

[pendell]

Can I pay you in theoretical dollars?

If you want a theoretical machine, yes :). Theoretical money doesn't make my car payments.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[golentan]

If you want a theoretical machine, yes :). Theoretical money doesn't make my car payments.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

Sure it does. Theoretically.

[TheThan]

So i want one. Once you've got it sighted in at your favorite easy chair, you'll be living the high life!

[Dr.Epic]

If you want a theoretical machine, yes :). Theoretical money doesn't make my car payments.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

But you could get a theoretical car with all that theoretical money...in theory.

[Keld Denar]

high life!

There is a reason they call it the champagne of beers...

[Ravens_cry]

Except in the single case of a drunk space goblin on a flying refrigerator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsU3ySB4qRU&feature=related)... :smalltongue:
There is an exception to everything I suppose. But, like you said, it is a distinctly singular case.:smalltongue:

[Killer Angel]

There is an exception to everything I suppose. :smalltongue:

...and the Forum's hive mind, is the best place to find 'em! :smallbiggrin:

[Form]

But you could get a theoretical car with all that theoretical money...in theory.

And once we've established the theory we'll just take the limit of money --> 0 and then we'll know for sure!

[grimbold]

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